Exome Sequencing Project has some surprising results
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 10:14
in Biology & Nature
Scientists participating in Exome Sequencing Project expected that individual rare variants would have a greater effect on over 80 heart, lung and blood related traits and diseases. However, they found that many (1.1 million) of the 1.2 million coding variants identified in exome data of 4,420 European-Americans and 2,312 African-Americans occurred very infrequently in the population and often were only observed in a single individual.